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The last day of regular BR passenger train operations was on 01 July 1957
Originally known as the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway Company, the railway was largely promoted by local land own...

In 1908, Mr William Elijah Benton a mining engineer from Acton, founded a small business to manufacture lime on the southern edge of Chinnor. This eventually consisted of five Beehive Lime Kilns produ...

It has been a long term ambition of the railway to provide a covered space for undertaking locomotive and carriage restoration at Chinnor. Thanks to a great deal of internal fund raising among our vol...

The railway comprises a single line with two termini. It operates a version of traditional One Engine in Steam (OES) signalling regulations. No train may occupy the single line unless its driver has w...